Another perspective could be that we are creatures emergent out of the physical and chemical processes of the universe. There is some similarity or equivalence

Another perspective could be that we are creatures emergent out of the physical and chemical processes of the universe. There is some similarity or equivalence to some of these processes with mathematics, which allows us to model a subset of physics/chemistry with mathematics. Because physics/chemistry can create us using rules that follow math (or even some undiscovered rules), this same physics/chemistry gives us the faculties of reason that lets us think about and apply math in some universal way The physical, chemical, and mathematical substrate to which we are born allow us to even discover that the rules of math can be applied to some subset of the laws (or chaos?) of the universe.